Pat’s dad found huge wooden type to declare JFK was dead Cathy’s practical joke was to season sweet potato doughnuts with pepper instead.

Tom partied and danced at a Grateful Dead concert Where a pretty girl yakked despite the “Shut Up and Dance” shirt.

Joyce shyly sand in her church choir Pat’s art class dance set a teacher on fire.

Linda thought being banned from her daughter’s medical exam was jive Cathy remembered a family split when she was just five.

And me, I told several stories from my wayward life Cross country driving, divorcing my wife, Jumping from a plane for a story, but missing the shot VW broke down outside Barstow, the desert was too hot.

(NOTE: This was a poem challenge for the Last Stanza Poetry Association)